“It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.” HeartImportantHardChurchBrokenToughSeasonsStuckPhrasesTough TimesBucks Author:Max Lucado
“There was - there still is - a big shortage of good Chinese-English literary translators. So for two years in London, I was stuck waiting, not writing, with several Chinese books I couldn't get translated. That's when I decided to write in English, since I had been living here and had decided to reconstruct my life here. Even if I wrote in broken English, it was better than getting bored and weary and bitter on the long queue of authors waiting to be translated by a stranger.” WritingLongBookWaitingBrokenStrangerStuckBitterChineseBoredTranslators Author:Xiaolu Guo
“Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind. People get stuck, people get looped. People get trapped. But we are all time machines.” PeopleKindBrokenMachinesStuckHardestAll TimeTime TravelTrappedTime MachineKind People Book:How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel